Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Dec 2003 12:10:06 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4 |
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On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Joe Thornber wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:15:08AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > I believe 2.6 is the right place for the device mapper. > > So what's the difference between a new filesystem like XFS and a new > device driver like dm ?
Expected question...
XFS is a totally different filesystem from the ones present in 2.4.
As far as I know, we already have the similar functionality in 2.4 with LVM. Device mapper provides the same functionality but in a much cleaner way. Is that right?
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